IoT expert to head up Bosch Building Technologies

Effective July 1, 2018, the IoT specialist Dr. Tanja Rückert will be joining the Bosch Group. Effective August 1, she will assume the position of president of the Bosch Building Technologies division (2017: sales of 1.9 billion euros, 9,000 associates). Rückert currently heads up the IoT and Digital Supply Chain business unit at SAP SE in Walldorf, Germany. She succeeds Gert van Iperen (63), who will retire on July 31. “I am very happy that Tanja Rueckert is joining Bosch. We will be gaining an internationally recognized specialist in IoT and Industry 4.0. She will drive forward, optimize, and implement our strategy of connectivity in products, systems, and solutions for security, communication, and energy efficiency,” said Dr. Stefan Hartung, whose responsibilities on the Bosch board of management include the Energy and Building Technology business sector. Hartung also praised the work done by her predecessor: “Gert van Iperen is someone who always acts intelligently and pragmatically. With great foresight, he anticipated the impact of connectivity and digitalization on security and building technology. In addition, he made the business with solutions and services in this area continuously more global.”